Better outcomes increase survival and thus increase the demand for nursing

People who survive emergency events such as heart attacks and strokes need nursing care for the immediate recovery phase in hospital, and then services such as rehabilitation and support to live with stroke disability or heart failure, often for many years. Over the last 20 years the percentage surviving has more than doubled, creating a need for nursing care that would not exist had they died. Increased use of for example primary angioplasty in specialist centres will improve survival rates further. Coupled with a likely increased number of heart attacks as the incidence of obesity-related disease grows, the need for more nursing shoots up. (MINAP 2011)

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